Voters from All Local Parties in Puerto Rico Agree that they Want a $15 Minimum Wage
By Gustavo Sanchez
Methodology
From October 19 to October 26, 2020, Data for Progress conducted a survey of 439 Puerto Rico likely voters using text-to-web and web panel responses. The sample was weighted to be representative of likely voters by age, gender, education, income, religion, partisanship and senate district. The survey was conducted in Spanish and English. The margin of error is ±5 percentage points.
For this analysis we’ve chosen to show results for very small subgroups, not because we think the estimates for these subgroups are accurate, but because it reaffirms the general trend in our data that very few Puerto Ricans on the island oppose raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, regardless of their self-identified party affiliation.
Below we show results not only for all voters and the two largest parties, the New Progressive Party (Partido Nuevo Progresista -- PNP) and the Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático -- PPD), but also for the smaller parties, namely the Citizens' Victory Movement (Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana -- MVC), the Puerto Rican Independence Party (Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño -- PIP), and Project Dignity (Proyecto Dignidad -- PD).
Our raw number of responses for MVC, PIP, and PD are 61, 41 and 27 respectively. Estimates for these three parties are not accurate, but instead are notable because of the total lack of opposition among respondents from these parties.
Summary of Findings
We found overwhelming support for raising the minimum wage on the islands to $15 an hour. Among all voters, 78 percent said they strongly support the change, and 13 percent said they somewhat support the change. Some did not know how to respond, some were indifferent, and almost none opposed. The same trend of support holds when support and opposition are examined by self-identified local partisanship.
Gustavo Sanchez (@lgsanchezconde) is the Senior Data Engineer at Data for Progress. You can email him at gustavo@dataforprogress.org